teacher's pet
Example Sentences
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"He wasn't quite the teacher’s pet, but the teachers were always asking 'do you agree with that Erik?'"
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024
Even then, a teacher’s pet like me could have gotten the decision overturned.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2022
Connie is essentially power-hungry teacher’s pet Tracy Flick from “Election,” if she grew up to become an Olympic race-walking champion who has struggled with infertility.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021
“I consciously learned and performed my race,” he writes, “like a teacher’s pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.”
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2019
He ought to sit up there at the desk instead of Little Britches, being teacher’s pet.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
